The Lord appeared a second time to Solomon, as he had done at Gibeon when Solomon had built the house. And God said, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication. I have made this house holy, and my eyes and my heart shall be on it forever. If you will walk before me in uprightness, then I will establish your throne. But if you serve other gods and do not keep my commandments, I will cut off Israel, reject this house which was built for my name and make Israel a derision and scorn before all other peoples. And they will say, this has happened to this house, because they abandoned their God.